The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 8, sentence 49
“Are all these tales such cobwebs and moontalk?” said Mowgli.
Who acts: tales, such cobwebs · What happens: be, say · To what, where: such cobwebs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tales, such cobwebs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cobwebs | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 cobwebs | advmod |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 tales | det |
| 5 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cobwebs | nsubj |
| 6 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cobwebs | amod |
| 7 | cobwebs | cobweb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 moontalk | cc |
| 9 | moontalk | moontalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cobwebs | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cobwebs | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cobwebs | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Mowgli | Mowgli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this tales | such cobwebs and moontalk | all property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | such cobwebs and moontalk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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